Tasks include trace element and isotope analyses by LA-ICPMS and MC-ICPMS of bone and teeth to determine migratory patterns and landscape use by humans and animals of the investigated sites and to quantify the geological and climate processes that control the isotope signals in the investigated sites. For the analytical part of the project, the candidate will work closely with the Department of Chemical and Geological Sciences of the University of Modena, and with the Department of Earth Sciences of the University of Pisa, where all the analytical instrumentations and laboratory facilities are currently set up for this type of investigations.
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[Website Università di Bologna]
We are looking for an experienced lab manager to support wet lab research and wet lab-field site coordination in the Department of Primate Behavior and Evolution. You will support the scientific staff of the Department in tasks related to wet lab management and data generation. The labs in the Department of Primate Behavior and Evolution encompass work in molecular ecology, functional genomics, and cell culture-based experimentation, both in Leipzig and in the field. The lab manager will help coordinate activities, space use, and equipment across these groups; contribute to molecular genetic/genomic data generation; help organize experimental and lab safety protocols; and manage sample archiving and tracking, including contributing to biological sample permitting, import, and export. You will also contribute significantly to departmental lab organization and purchasing for work in Leipzig and at departmental field sites, and may support student training in molecular techniques.
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[Website Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology]
The researcher will be employed by the Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, and work on the Research Council of Norway funded project Nordic People and Plants. Nordic People and Plants investigates the development of Nordic biodiversity through human interference from the Viking age until today. The project aims to rediscover and understand the evolution of Nordic plant traditions, by explaining the origins of diversity of selected plants. People have always been dependent on plants, using them as food, animal fodder, medicine, or as materials for clothing, tools and buildings. Throughout history, plants have shaped how people build, dress, and cure diseases. In turn, people have influenced biodiversity by cultivating and introducing new plant species, but they have also caused plants to go extinct. Currently, a decline in plant diversity world-wide threatens our well-being and the ecosystems we depend on, making it all the more pressing to better understand these human-plant relationships. In this project, plant names, archaeobotanical sources, iconographical sources and textual descriptions will all be systematized and analyzed. The project is based on close collaboration between the humanities and natural sciences. This cooperation will contribute to a comprehensive understanding of human relationships with plants and contribute to safeguarding Nordic plant traditions for the future. The candidate’s work for the project will be to use data science approaches and ethnobotanical expertise to improve and analyze our extensive database of ethnobotanical, linguistic, archaeobotanical, and historical datasets. They will conduct research aimed at answering questions at the core of the project, such as: Can we triangulate data sources to state what the Viking ethnobotanical toolkit looked like? How was knowledge of plant use transmitted across time and space? What dynamics of cultural and linguistic diversity can be understood with these data? We therefore seek a candidate with strong analytical skills as well as a background/training in ethnobotany or a similar field.
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[Website University of Oslo]
Khalifa University is seeking a highly motivated Post-doctoral Fellow to work on a funded project to investigate archeological sites in the UAE using geophysical techniques such as GPR, ERT, MASW, gravity and magnetic. The project will design, acquire, process and interpret geophysical survey data that can be used to detect buried archaeological objectives in the UAE. The outcomes of the field surveys will serve to validate the results obtained from satellite imagery. As part of the project, the researcher will have access to state-of-the-art research equipment and facilities at the Earth Sciences department and will get an opportunity to work alongside researchers and graduate students from various backgrounds as part of a wider team.
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[Website Khalifa University]
The Department of Zoology invites applications for a 3-year postdoc position within the division of Population Genetics, based at the Centre for Palaeogenetics (CPG) in Stockholm. The position is funded through the ERC Advanced Grant PrimiGenomes awarded to Love Dalén. The postdoctoral project advertised here is aimed at developing novel computational tools to bioinformatically recover and analyze highly degraded DNA sequences from specimens that are up to 2.5 million years old. The goals include development of improved methods for accurate alignment and authentication of extremely short DNA fragments, exploring variation graph alignment and variant calling approaches for several different Pleistocene taxa, and benchmarking the performance of the developed tools using comparisons of simulated and empirical data.
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[Website Stockholm University]
The post doc will work on the ERC - funded project FELIX to conduct paleogenomic analyses on cats froma Asia. The goal to generate and analyze genome- wide data from historic and prehistoric speciments to reconstruct the dispersal of domestic cats with humans, admixture events between wild and domestic cat populations and selective precesses in the past.
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[Website Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata]
Applications are invited for a Research Scientist position as part of the two-year project “CROPREVIVE: mapping underutilised crops in Ireland – past, present and future”. There has been a significant reduction in crop diversity globally, which has serious implications for food security. By merging data from archaeology and plant sciences, CROPREVIVE will investigate the deep history of crop diversity in Ireland and seek resilient modern varieties of crops for future sustainable production. This is an exciting opportunity to work as part of an international, interdisciplinary team tackling a global societal challenge (PI: Assoc. Prof. Meriel McClatchie; Co-PI: Dr Sónia Negrão ). The Research Scientist will merge datasets from Archaeology and Agronomy, undertake data analyses (including statistical analyses) and contribute to a report on findings. The Research Scientist will also engage in stakeholder consultation and outreach activities. Training will be provided in outreach activities, including mapping of data.
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[Website University College Dublin]
The project Building in New Lands funded by Kone Foundation invites applications for the position of postdoctoral researcher in Archaeobotany. The project “Building in New Lands: Phoenician sustainable architecture and environmental adaptation along the Mediterranean Sea” affiliated with the Centre of Excellence in Ancient Near Eastern Empires is pleased to announce a fixed-term research fellowship concentrated on archaeobotany and micromorphology. This project investigates Mediterranean Iron Age earthen architecture, specifically mudbricks, as integral part of material culture. The study aims to examine changes in architectural form and technology alongside the reconstruction of technological and social processes of earthen materials manufacture and construction. This call is particularly targeted to archaeobotanist who are familiar with phytoliths and macroremains analyses of building materials. Applications from scholars wishing to collaborate across disciplinary boundaries, such as Archaeology, Anthropology, Heritage studies and geoscience, are particularly encouraged.
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Applications are invited for a postdoctoral research associate/fellow to work as part of a team on a Leverhulme Trust funded project ‘Integrated ClimAte Resilience UnderStanding (ICARUS) Belize’. The project will develop and apply an approach that integrates climate information drawn from instrumental records, community experience, historical accounts and palaeoenvironmental (including archaeological) data to enable a deeper understanding of resilience to extreme climate events in Belize, with the overall objective of building improved resilience in future. The role of this post holder will be to undertake a desk-based review of the palaeoenvironmental and archaeological literature relating to Belize and the adjacent areas of Mexico and Central America using available databases (e.g. WoS) to develop a project bibliography. They will then analyse, interpret and synthesise information from these sources focusing on evidence for 1) climate change (including extreme events such as droughts and hurricanes), 2) changes in natural vegetation, landcover and landuse, and 3) human responses to climate change including changes in diet and nutrition, changes in traditional practices, abandonment or structural changes in settlements and changes in water management practices. The role holder will be expected to work closely with other members of the project team working on developing understanding of extreme climate events, responses and resilience using a range of methods and disciplinary perspectives.
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[Website University of Nottingham]
We offer an opportunity to support a cutting-edge laboratory that has so far been responsible for producing more than half of the world’s ancient DNA data. The successful candidate will assume a computational biologist/data scientist position and will work closely with scientists in the lab studying DNA from human remains up to 20,000 years ago. Under limited supervision, this role is responsible for computational data analysis of the assigned project. Collaborates and consults with researchers and scientists to analyze problems, recommend technology-based solutions, and design computational strategies for a project. Contributes to the design, development, implementation, and testing of bio-computing tools. Ability to communicate analyzed data to analysts writing scientific papers.
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[Website Harvard University]
